Primitive truth and order vindicated from modern misrepresentation: with a defence of episcopacy, particularly that of Scotland, against an attack made on it, by dr. Campbell in his Lectures on ecclesiastical history: and a concluding address to the episcopalians of Scotland

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Página 127 ... presiding over their several portions of the flock of Christ ; administering the
sacred rite of consirmation, as the seal or sanction of admission into that flock ;
ordaining presbyters, as the pastors of its several congregations, and deacons for
the ...

Página 375 We could produce many respectable authorities in consirmation of the opinion
which has now been given of the meaning and design of this Chalcedo- nian
canon. The author of that celebrated work, called " Ecclesiastical Polity" and who
is ...

Página 400 ... bishops duly authorized to perform the original duties of their office, to ordain
and govern the clergy, and administer the sacred rite of consirmation, but without
any temporal power or preferment, and possessed os no other authority, than that
...

Página 505 ... we have now quoted, " which retains the " use of the outward form or sign in consirmation, " and prescribes such preparatory forms of devotion " as are suited
to the occasion, is every way agree- " able in its practice to the sense of the
gospel, ...

Página 225 - Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves : for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

Página 495 - They also are to be had accursed that presume to say, That every man shall be saved by the Law or Sect which he professeth, so that he be diligent to frame his life according to that Law, and the light of Nature. For Holy Scripture doth set out unto us only the Name of Jesus Christ, whereby men must be saved.

Página 190 - Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection.

Página 502 - Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John: who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost...

Página 43 - Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath : that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us...

Página 123 - P. 327. Though the apostles have affirmed the exaltation of the Saviour to the government of the universe in every variety of form which language can supply, — though he himself declared that all power was given to him in heaven and in earth, — his possession of external authority is unblushingly asserted to be an unscriptural tenet.

Página 193 - And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.

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Primitive truth and order vindicated from modern misrepresentation: with a defence of episcopacy, particularly that of Scotland, against an attack made on it, by dr. Campbell in his Lectures on ecclesiastical history: and a concluding address to the episcopalians of Scotland